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We present two ways of modeling the spectral energy distribution of blazars in the hadronic context and discuss the predictions of each "hadronic variant" on the spectral shape, the multi-wavelength variability, the cosmic-ray flux, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Paolo Padovani , Elisa Resconi , Paolo Giommi , Apostolos Mastichiadis

Blazar emission models are usually divided into two big families, leptonic and hadronic, according to the particles which are responsible for the gamma-ray component of their spectral energy distributions. Even though leptonic models have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , G. Emery , D. Guarin

In this review, recent progress in theoretical models for blazar emission will be summarized. The salient features of both leptonic and lepto-hadronic approaches to modeling blazar spectral energy distributions will be reviewed. I will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-28 Markus Boettcher

The characteristic double-bumped spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars is explained by either leptonic or hadronic models. In the former, Inverse Compton emission dominates the emission of the high energy bump, while proton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-03 Matteo Cerruti , Andreas Zech , Catherine Boisson , Susumu Inoue

In this review, recent progress in theoretical models for the broadband (radio through gamma-ray) emission from blazars are summarized. The salient features of both leptonic and hadronic models are reviewed. I present sample modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-03 Markus Boettcher

In this work, we study the parameter space of neutrino-emitting BL Lacs under the framework of the one-zone lepto-hadronic model. We show that constraints on the model come from various aspects of observations such as the variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 ZhiPeng Ma , Kai Wang

Blazar TXS 0506+056 is the main candidate for a coincident neutrino and gamma-ray flare event. In this paper, we present a detailed kinetic lepto-hadronic emission model capable of producing a photon and neutrino spectrum given a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Bruno Jiménez-Fernández , H. J. van Eerten

We introduce a new time-dependent lepto-hadronic model for blazar emission that takes into account the radiation emitted by secondary particles, such as pions and muons, from photo hadronic interactions. Starting from a baseline parameter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Christopher Diltz , Markus Boettcher , Giovanni Fossati

The characteristic two-component blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) can be of either leptonic and/or hadronic origins. The potential association of the high-energy neutrino event IceCube-170922A with the flaring blazar TXS~0506+056…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Haocheng Zhang , Ke Fang , Hui Li , Dimitrios Giannios , Markus Böttcher , Sara Buson

The Synchrotron Proton Blazar model is a promising model to explain high energy emission from gamma-ray loud BL Lac objects like Mkn 421. In contrast to leptonic models, the hadronic explanation of gamma-ray emission predicts ultrahigh…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Muecke , R. J. Protheroe

Blazars are promising high-energy neutrino source candidates. However, leptohadronic models face challenges in describing neutrino emission within a viable energy budget, and their predictive power is limited by the commonly used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xavier Rodrigues , Frank Rieger , Artem Bohdan , Paolo Padovani

Blazars are promising candidates for high energy neutrino sources, yet the physical origin of their neutrino emission remains uncertain. In this work, we extend our previous study by modeling the broadband spectral energy distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao Ouyang , Lili Yang , Jingtian Zhu , Minfeng Gu , Liang Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Zhijian Luo , Junhui Fan

The models developed to describe the spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars can be divided into leptonic or hadronic scenarios, according to the particles responsible for the high-energy component. We have developed a new stationary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Matteo Cerruti , Andreas Zech , Catherine Boisson , Susumu Inoue

Modeling the broadband emission of blazars has become increasingly challenging with the advent of multimessenger observations. Building upon previous successes in applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to leptonic emission scenarios,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 N. Sahakyan , D. Bégué , A. Casotto , H. Dereli-Bégué , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan , P. Giommi , A. Pe'er

The origin of extragalactic high-energy neutrinos remains a major mystery in astrophysics, with blazars as leading candidate sources. The widely adopted one-zone leptohadronic jet model, however, faces severe challenges from stringent X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Wei-Jian Li , Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Dingrong Xiong

We describe new implementations of leptonic and hadronic models for the broadband emission from relativistic jets in AGN in a temporary steady state. For the leptonic model, a temporary equilibrium between particle injection/acceleration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Boettcher , A. Reimer , K. Sweeney , A. Prakash

Blazars have been pointed out as promising high-energy (HE) neutrinos sources, although the mechanism is still under debate. The blazars with a hard-TeV spectrum, which leptonic models can hardly explain, can be successfully interpreted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 E. Aguilar-Ruiz , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez

Blazars are interesting source candidates for astrophysical neutrino emission. Multi-messenger lepto-hadronic models based on proton-photon (p-gamma) interactions result in predictions for the neutrino spectra (''p-gamma spectra'') which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Julian Kuhlmann , Francesca Capel

Blazar hadronic models have been developed in the past decades as an alternative to leptonic ones. In hadronic models the gamma-ray emission is associated with synchrotron emission by protons, and/or secondary leptons produced in…

Context.Blazars, a sub-category of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by their non-thermal variable emission. This emission extends over the whole electromagnetic spectrum and is a consequence of particle acceleration inside their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Stella S. Boula , Apostolos Mastichiadis
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